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On Thursday, May 23rd, WICS members visited Paciolan for a job shadowing day! Twelve WICS members arrived at 9:30am and were greeted by Will Jang, the Director of Software Engineering, who took the members straight into shadowing his stand-up meeting. After the stand-up, the members and Paciolan engineers split up Read More

On Monday, May 13th, WICS members enjoyed dinner while learning how to properly format a technical resume from representatives from the Career Center! After the presentation, members were able to ask the representatives to look over their resumes and ask them for tips.

On Monday, May 6, WICS hosted a study session, where students could meet up with friends and club members to help each other study for midterms and work on projects. The members helped each other with homework and gave advice and support to everyone. It was a great night to Read More

On Monday, April 29, WICS’ community outreach committee hosted their Intro to Web Design event! This event was a beginner level workshop open to all majors. During the hands-on workshop, attendees were introduced to HTML and CSS, which they learned to use to create and customize their own web portfolio. Read More

On April 22, WICS had our second Battle of the Mentorships for our 2018-2019 Mentorship program! Thirty mentors and mentees enjoyed refreshments before preparing to battle in a series of competitions. Our Vice Presidents Cheyenne Chavez and Sharon Hsu instructed the teams through a total of 7 games including: human Read More

On April 6-7, many WICS members attended AthenaHacks 2019, an all-female hackathon at USC! Attendees of the hackathon formed teams and collaborated to create a hack within 24 hours. Two of the teams made up of all-WICS members won an award during the showcase! One team (Amanda Chou, Diana Grande, Read More

On April 15, WICS hosted a Grace Hopper Info Session, to educate WICS members on the inspirational conference coming up this Fall! Several WICS Committee members that have had the opportunity to partake in Grace Hopper sat on a panel to answer questions from both the audience and moderator, offering Read More

On April 8th, WICS hosted an information session with Paciolan, a company provides sports and entertainment venues with the software needed to facilitate automated ticketing. Around 50 people attended this event. The presentation was given by 2 women representatives from Paciolan: Katie Huang, a UX Designer and Amy Thelen, a Read More

On April 1st, WICS held their quarterly first general meeting where we present a rundown of what events we’re planning for this quarter. Members grabbed some food and socialized before the presentation. Co-president Cris Agerton led the meeting, informing attendees of what WICS has in store for Spring Quarter as Read More

January 26, 2019 – February 16, 2019 This winter WICS partnered with Erica Hsueh from Northwood High school for a second session of Bytes of Code! The National Center for Women in Technology awarded Erica with another round of funding for her successful Aspire IT program. This time we spent Read More